The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-08-12
ABoUr two hundred people were tn.owr

ABOUT two hundred people were tnEowr
| into the water at Milwaukee on the 9th
| by the collapse Of coal-shed on which
| they were standing to see the launching
of new steamboat, and three young men
were killed and thirty other persons @ere
wounded.
on the 9th Whiteley, Fassler & Kelley,
OF Springfield, O., the largest reaper
| manufacturers in the world, were forced
to make an assignment on account of the
Fidelity Bank crash in Cincinnati
CAPTAIN RICHARD WooLFALK, farmer,
his wife, four children, and Mrs West. an
aunt of Mrs. Woolfalk, were found dead
| in their house near Macon. Ca, on tie 9Th
| with their Threats cut. Tom Woolfalk, q
| son of the captain by former wife, was
| under arrest.
A SEVERE storm visited the town of
| Franklin, O., on the 9th, and a portion Of
the place was inundated and an oil. tank Of
fifteen thousand barrels was destroyed by
! lightning.
| REPORTS from various sections in Iii.
nois, Indiana and Wisconsin ON the 9th
showed that copious rains had prevailed
| and that crops were greatly improved
| On the 9th W. G. Lasley, a merchant,
| after several unsuccessful attempts, COM
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He was held for the murder of Boy,i
Smith, and under sentence for twenty-one
years.
| The men who held two jobs in the iron
| mills at Youngstown, O., relinquished one
of them on the 9Th, and the strike inaugu-
| rated over the matter was at an end.
| GENERAL A. w. DoNIPHAN, one of the
most prominent attorneys of the State of
Missouri, died at his home at Richmond,
| Mo-, on the 9Th. aged seventy nine years.
| IT is stated that the Wisconsin Depart
ment, G. A. R., enjoys the honor of being
the first organized, the date being June z,
| 1866. The Illinois Department had claimed
| that distinction, but it was said it's for
| nation was not consummated until July
| IL, 1866.
| In Brown County, Wis. forest fires had
on the Sth destroyed thousands of cords Of
wood and many barns and outbuildings
| In Dodge County farmer named Duessler
lost his barn, con tanning all his grain, a
span of horses and twelve hogs. His
son, aged ten years, also persisted in the
| flames.
The W. o. Taylor Paper Company failed
in Chicago on the Sth for $3.50, 900, and
Baird & Dillon, silver platers, failed, with
liabilities amounting to $l75,0O0.
| AN effort to throw train on the Chi
| cago, Rock Island & Pacific road into the
Iowa river, near Iowa City, was made on
the 8th. Several spikes had been taken
! from the rails, but the engineer saw the
danger in time to avert it.
| CROPS in Southern Manitoba were dew
| astated by a terrific haii-storm on the
| Sth. Grain was beaten into the ground,
| and there was not enough left for seeding
purposes.
| ABOUT Cheboygan, Mich, forest fires
vera raging on the 8th and vast losses
| had1been entailed.
| A PERMIT was issued on the 9Th in Chi
cago for the interment of the remains OF
Owen Byrne, who died at the age of one
| hundred years.
| NEAR st. Joseph, MINI, forest fires had
on the Sth burned four hundred acres Of
| prairie, and a number of farmers had los
all their grain and crops. The flames were
| spreading.